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Date:      Fri, 11 Mar 2016 17:51:02 +0300
From:      Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw@zxy.spb.ru>
To:        Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz>
Cc:        Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>, David Chisnall <theraven@FreeBSD.org>, Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-pkgbase@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [CFT] packaging the base system with pkg(8)
Message-ID:  <20160311145102.GR70809@zxy.spb.ru>
In-Reply-To: <56E2D88C.4000701@quip.cz>
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On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 03:39:08PM +0100, Miroslav Lachman wrote:

> >> Anything else is on your side and even if I understand your complaints
> >> (and I agree with some of them) I don't thing it will change anything on
> >> the future of packaged base.
> >> So it is better to spend our time on working local solution to new
> >> problem. It has some pros and some cons and I hope the pros will
> >> outweigh cons.
> >
> > I am don't talk 'this is imposible'. I am talk 'this is awkward'.
> > What purpose for paclaging base system? packaging for packaging? Or
> > packaging for simplify and comfortably management, maintance and
> > upgrade?
> 
> I hope it will simplified updates. Freebsd-update was so unreliable and 
> unpredictable for me that I returned to the "make buildkernel && make 

for mee too.

> buildworld" on builder machine and "make installkernel && make 
> installworld" through NFS on destinations. And it has some cons too - 

currently i am do binary update:

beadm create 10.3-pREV
beadm mount 10.3-pREV /mnt
cd /mnt
find -x . -flags +schg | xargs chflags noschg
fetch -qo - http://HOST/update/doc.txz | tar xf -
fetch -qo - http://HOST/update/kernel.txz | tar xf -
fetch -qo - http://HOST/update/lib32.txz | tar xf -
fetch -qo - http://HOST/update/base.txz | tar xf - --exclude ./boot/device.hints ./COPYRIGHT boot dev media mnt proc tmp bin lib libexec rescue sbin usr var/yp/Makefile.dist
fetch http://HOST/update/etcupdate.tar
gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 ada1
cd /
beadm umount 10.3-pREV
beadm activate 10.3-pREV

> recompile whole system and reinstall on all machines instead of just 

I am proposed: patch packages (replaced or removed some files).

> some small package. It has it's impact on size of backups too.

Size of backups?



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